Alright, time to effortpost!
What happens when Kiwi Farms shuts down?
Honestly I'm not even too worried. I think a lot of us are on Kiwi Farms mostly for the community more than anything, which is still a strong foundation of the site to this day (even though Josh will swear up and down that it isn't). So what happens when KF dies? There will probably be a splintering of the community for sure: some will come here maybe, some will go to lolcow.farm, or 4chan, or maybe even Reddit (depending on how much being able to call someone a nigger on the internet means to them). But the majority of us will probably still be around shitposting in some capacity. The community will still be around in one form or another I think.
What happens to Josh?
Hoo boy. I made my previous point overly hopepilled to balance things out. I
don't see things ending well for Josh at all, to be honest. I'm sure he'll try the whole spiel of changing his name, trying to fabricate a past-decade work/life history that isn't just "sat in a cold basement guarding my Kiwi Farms server while waiting for my Borscht to heat up", and so on. And that might even work for a bit. But Josh has made some really creepy and persistent enemies over the years, and I doubt they're going to magically stop harassing him just because the farms went down. I'm
positive ol' Sammy is going to dedicate the rest of his life to making sure Josh's sucks. And Josh has slighted enough people—even if just by being the owner of "that goddamn cyberbullying forum"—that he has no end of people that will fuck with him just for the fun of it. Staying in hiding probably becomes really difficult when someone who knows what you look like spotted you by chance in a corner store in whatever European shithole you're stuck in, then @'d Ethan Ralph on Twitter with a picture and he broadcast it, and now fucking everybody knows, especially Sammy/Melinda/et al.
Josh mentioned in
his infamous Murtaugh post that he really wants a family and
some facsimile of a normal life now that he's entering his thirties. That feeling is only going to get stronger as he enters his forties (and fifties, and sixties, and...) with nothing having changed in his life ever. And before long he'll really start to wonder what the fuck the point of it all is.
